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Post by lois on Nov 30, 2013 10:59:25 GMT -6
It did survive (at least for now anyway ). Take a look at my last two posts above and go to the spaceweather.com link. thanks Cliff for the good news. It is good news to me anyway.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 30, 2013 13:15:14 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2013 18:31:55 GMT -6
Yep, fading again. Crazy comet. I noticed it last night as I have been watching this thing very closely. Just waking up sipping coffee. Off of the top of my head (like I said I'm not fully awake yet), I think it was one of the Lovejoy comets that did roughly the same thing,,,or was it kahoutek ? Anyway, the zombie comet as others have called it or ( phoenix-my new term as of right at this awakening moment for this crazy thing that I haven't heard anyone else call it as of yet )still lives ? Or maybe has fallen. At this point, who really knows ?
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Post by sunbow on Jan 27, 2014 12:08:15 GMT -6
So we will pass through the tail debris in Feb (~12). Will we have a new meteorite shower. Will the nucleic acids from the Oort cloud bring a major flu epidemic?
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Post by lois on Jan 27, 2014 18:00:21 GMT -6
So we will pass through the tail debris in Feb (~12). Will we have a new meteorite shower. Will the nucleic acids from the Oort cloud bring a major flu epidemic? Sunbow .. I don't understand your post. Sorry! I thought ISON was dead. what is this new . tail debris? from what?
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Post by sunbow on Jan 27, 2014 19:49:32 GMT -6
When it passed through the space where the Earth orbits last year it had a huge tail.
To quote without verification, but I assume these are about true: "NASA calculated that comet ISON at that time was ejecting 122,000 tons of ‘matter’ every minute from its tail!" "As comets travel through space they leave behind themselves a huge trail of tiny dust that can be millions of miles long."
They are saying it will be dispersed and like most comet tails and meteorite showers, nothing will hit ground. They will be small grains of sand or pea sized things that flash in the upper atmosphere. That is my first question, will we see a new meteorite shower, where teh sky has many shooting stars?
My second question is that we know virus come from space. Often they first enter birds repritory systems (avain flu) and often are transferred to pigs (swine flu) before humans. This is simplified, since nature has great variety, but the point is they come from space and humans may not be the first place they reproduce. Millions come in and most are destroyed by our genetics. These will be very new ones from teh Oort cloud. So, will we have an ISON flu season of exceeding magnitude?
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Post by skywalker on Jan 27, 2014 20:46:33 GMT -6
Ison disappeared because it disintegrated into gazillions of little bitty pieces. Instead of being one big rock it is now gazillions of little bitty ones. Most of the meteor showers that we have each year are caused by the remains of comets that passed by years and years ago.
As for it causing a flu epidemic or some such thing I doubt it. We are constantly being bombarded with stuff from space every day. Any viruses from Ison probably wouldn't even be noticeable...unless it is some deadly disease like in the book The Andromeda Strain. That fictional virus arrived via a meteor and proceeded to wipe out large portions of the population.
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Post by sunbow on Jan 28, 2014 19:44:27 GMT -6
Well yet again, let us hope nothing happens. Like you said, most have been around for years and come down repeatedly. This is new stuff.
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